Ingls II

Once upon a time

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Read the text carefully taking into account its structure. Here you have the track in case
you want to listen to the text and practice the listening comprehension:
The Comeback
Fausto Ruiz got off the boat at the port of the city where he had been born fifty years ago,
and to which he had not returned for twenty years. He walked along the seafront, surprised
by how much his hometown had changed, and also by how much of it he could still recognise.
There were lots of new buildings up on the hills around the city now, buildings which he
didnt recognise. But many of the old buildings along the sea were exactly the same as he
recognised them, although many of the old shops he remembered were there no more.
He walked away from the port and into the centre of the city. He walked up the main road
and saw how all the shops had changed, but that there was still one small caf there which
was the same as it had been when he was young, and famous. He walked into the caf and sat
down at one of the tables. He recognised the owner of the caf behind the bar as well as the
waiter who was working there. They both looked much, much older. Fausto felt certain that
he didnt look as old as they did, even though they were all twenty years older now.
Fausto sat at his table and waited for the waiter to come
to him. He sat there for ten, fifteen, twenty minutes. Half
an hour passed and the waiter continued to ignore him.
Fausto raised his arm and shouted to the waiter, then to
the owner of the caf behind the bar, but it was useless.
They didnt come and ask him what he wanted. They were
ignoring him.
Angry, Fausto got up and walked out of the caf, slamming
the door behind him. Such ignorant people, he thought.
Now I remember why I left this town twenty years ago,
and why I never came back.
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He had been walking along the main street for half an hour
until he arrived at the main square of the town. When he arrived at the main square he
remembered the other reason why he had never come back. In the main square of the town
there was the theatre. As he looked at the theatre, Fausto Ruiz had a terrible memory of
what had happened there twenty years ago
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1. Answer the following questions using long answers and your own words: (8pts)
a) How old is Fausto Ruiz?
b) In which way has his hometown changed?

c) How long was Fausto waiting for the waiter?

d) Summarize the text in two lines.

2. Here are 5 events from the story, but they are in the wrong chronological order. Use
numbers from 1 to 5 to put them in the correct order. (5pts)
EVENTS
He comes back to his
hometown
He walks into a bar, but
nobody sees him
He remembers what
happened twenty years ago
He leaves his hometown for
twenty years
He walks along the main
street of his town

ORDER

3. Decide on the use and then fill in the gaps with the verbs in brackets using either the
past perfect simple or the past simple tenses. (13pts)
1. Fausto _______ (see) the new buildings for the first time last night. He __________
(see/negative) them before.
2. If he _________________ (know) about the exhibition, he would have bought the tickets.
3. By the time he _________ (get) to the station, everybody __________________ (go), so he
found himself alone.
4. We ___________ (visit) the palace that my brother__________ (tell) me about a month
before.
5. If he _________________ (take) that, he wouldnt have come back.
6. When he ________ (call) the waiter, there was no answer. Fausto thought that he
________ (hear/negative) him.
7. He __________ (give) me the book that he __________(read).
8. Fausto has spent a weekend in Paris recently. He ______________ (be/negative) there
before.
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4. Make a cross in the correct place of this grid where the time expressions usually
appear. Some of them can be in more than one column. (4pts)
PARTICLES PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS PRESENT PERFECT PAST PERFECT
already
ever
just
ago
while
for/since
before/after
yet

5. Rewrite these sentences using the words that come in brackets. Make all the necessary
changes, but keep the same meaning: (20pts)
e.g.: The exam finishes at 6 p.m. It's 5.55 p.m. and he hasn't finished. (YET/FINISH) ---> He
hasn't finished the exam yet.
a) She knows the film. She saw it last month. (ALREADY) --->
b) My sons have studied English since 1992. (FOR) --->
c) The teacher arrived 20 seconds ago. (JUST) --->
d) She couldn't finish her project on the computer because the light went off. (WHILE) --->
e) She smelled the smoke. The chicken got burnt. (WHEN/ALREADY) --->

6. Write a story/tale using the structure of narrative texts that you have already studied.
Use the text about Fausto to continue the story you write. (50pts)

You must continue Fausto's story.

Start your narrative with the sentence: "Twenty years ago......"
Write between 100 - 120 words.
Remember to organise your text using an introduction, body and a conclusion. Use
different paragraphs to structure your ideas.

2 sentences in the Past Simple

2 sentences in the Past Perfect

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